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I 25° British Independent Film Awards si terranno il prossimio 4 dicembre, ma intanto BIFA ha svelato i nomi dei lungometraggi e delle performance che rappresentano il meglio del cinema indipendente inglese. A dominare per numero di candidature è Aftersun, esordio alla regia per Charlotte Wells con Paul Mescal e Frankie Corio, che ne ha ricevute ben 16.
A dodici nomination invece Il Prodigio, film Netflix di Sebastiàn Lelio con Florence Pugh e con nove candidature Living, remake del capolavoro di Kurosawa con Bill Nighy. Le categorie attoriali sono per la prima volta nella storia dei British Independent Film Awards genderless:
Best British Independent Film
Aftersun – Charlotte Wells, Barry Jenkins, Mark Ceryak, Adele Romanski, Amy Jackson
Blue Jean – Georgia Oakley, Hélène Sifre
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande – Sophie Hyde, Katy Brand, Debbie Gray, Adrian Politowski
Living – Oliver Hermanus, Kazuo Ishiguro, Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen
The Wonder – Sebastián Lelio, Emma Donoghue, Alice Birch, Juliette Howell, Andrew Lowe, Tessa Ross, Ed Guiney
Best Director
Oliver Hermanus – Living
Sophie Hyde – Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Sebastián Lelio – The Wonder
Georgia Oakley – Blue Jean
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun
Best Screenplay
Katy Brand – Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Kazuo Ishiguro – Living
Sebastián Lelio, Alice Birch, Emma Donoghue – The Wonder
Georgia Oakley – Blue Jean
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun
Best Lead Performance
Sally Hawkins – The Lost King
Cosmo Jarvis – It Is In Us All
Emma Mackey – Emily
Rosy McEwen – Blue Jean
Bill Nighy – Living
Florence Pugh – The Wonder
Emily Watson – God’s Creatures
Hala Zein – Nezouh
Best Supporting Performance
Zoey Deutch – The Outfit
Aisling Franciosi – God’s Creatures
Lucy Halliday – Blue Jean
Kerrie Hayes – Blue Jean
Zainab Joda – Our River… Our Sky
Fatma Mohamed – Flux Gourmet
Paul Mescal – God’s Creatures
Fionn Whitehead – Emily
Aimee Lou Wood – Living
Best Joint Lead Performance
Frankie Corio, Paul Mescal – Aftersun
Daryl McCormack, Emma Thompson – Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear – Men
Tamara Lawrance, Letitia Wright – The Silent Twins
Best Ensemble Performance
Blue Jean
Emily
Flux Gourmet
Our River… Our Sky
The Wonder
The Douglas Hickox Award (Best debut director)
Andrew Cumming – The Origin
Thomas Hardiman – Medusa Deluxe
Frances O’Connor – Emily
Georgia Oakley – Blue Jean
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun
Breakthrough Producer
Aleksandra Bilić, Jennifer Corcoran – Nascondino [Hide & Seek]
Paul Kennedy – Nightride [also produced by Jon Silk]
Rupert Majendie – Brian and Charles
Nadira Murray – Winners [also produced by Paul Welsh]
Hélène Sifre – Blue Jean
Breakthrough Performance
Frankie Corio – Aftersun
Leo Long – I Used to Be Famous
Kíla Lord Cassidy – The Wonder
Rosy Mcewen – Blue Jean
Safia Oakley-Green – The Origin
Best Debut Screenwriter
Shane Crowley – God’s Creatures
David Earl, Chris Hayward – Brian and Charles
Ruth Greenberg – The Origin
Georgia Oakley – Blue Jean
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun
Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary
Kathryn Ferguson – Nothing Compares
Victoria Fiore – Nascondino [Hide & Seek]
Leah Gordon, Eddie Hutton Mills – Kanaval
Jono McLeod – My Old School
Becky Hutner – Fashion Reimagined
The Raindance Discovery Award
Electric Malady – Marie Lidén, Aimara Reques
Fadia’s Tree – Sarah Beddington, Susan Simnett
Off the Rails – Peter Day, Grant Keir, Rob Alexander
Rebellion – Elena Sánchez Bellot, Maia Kenworthy, Kat Mansoor
Winners – Hassan Nazer, Nadira Murray, Paul Welsh
Best Feature Documentary
My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years in Afghanistan Phil Grabsky, Shoaib Sharifi, Amanda Wilkie
My Old School – Jono McLeod, John Archer, Olivia Lichtenstein
Nascondino [Hide & Seek] – Victoria Fiore, Jennifer Corcoran, Aleksandra Bilić
Nothing Compares – Kathryn Ferguson, Eleanor Emptage, Michael Mallie
Young Plato – Neasa Ní Chianáin, Declan McGrath, David Rane
Best British Short Film – supported by BFI NETWORK
A Fox in the Night – Keeran Anwar Blessie, Benjamin Jacob Smith
Honesty – Roxy Rezvany, Emily Renée, Elly Camisa
Sandstorm – Seemab Gul, Abid Aziz Merchant
Scale – Joseph Pierce, Hélène Mitjavile
Too Rough – Sean Lìonadh, Ross McKenzie, Alfredo Covelli
Best International Independent Film
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin, Yoni Golijov,
Close – Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens, Michiel Dhont, Dirk Impens
Decision to Leave – Park Chan-wook, Chung Seo-Kyung
Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang, Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Mike Larocca
The Worst Person in the World – Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Thomas Robsahm
Best Casting
Shaheen Baig – Blue Jean
Leila Bertrand – Our River… Our Sky
Kharmel Cochrane – The Silent Twins
Kahleen Crawford – Living
Lucy Pardee – Aftersun
Best Cinematography
Nascondino [Hide & Seek] – Alfredo De Juan
Rob Hardy – Men
Joel Honeywell – Kanaval
Gregory Oke – Aftersun
Ari Wegner – The Wonder
Best Costume Design
Jenny Beavan – Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
Saffron Cullane – Flux Gourmet
Odile Dicks-Mireaux – The Wonder
Frank Gallacher – Aftersun
Sandy Powell – Living
Best Editing
Joanna Crickmay – Elizabeth: A Portrait In Parts
Izabella Curry – Blue Jean
Mátyás Fekete – Flux Gourmet
Mick Mahon – Nothing Compares
Blair McClendon – Aftersun
Best Original Music
Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans – God’s Creatures
Oliver Coates – Aftersun
Matthew Herbert – The Wonder
Adam Janota Bzowski – The Origin
Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow – Men
Best Makeup and Hair Design
Oya Aygör, Murat Çağin – Aftersun
Morna Ferguson, Lorri Ann King – The Wonder
Siobhan Harper-Ryan – Flux Gourmet
Niamh Morrison – The Origin
Eugene Souleiman, Scarlett O’Connell – Medusa Deluxe
Best Effects
Chris Marshall – The Feast
David Simpson – Men
Ahmed Yousry – Nezouh
Best Music Supervision
Lucy Bright – Aftersun
Phil Canning – The Phantom of the Open
Rupert Hollier – Living
Best Sound
Tim Harrison, Raoul Brand, Cassandra Rutledge – Flux Gourmet
Glenn Freemantle, Ben Barker, Gillian Dodders, Howard Bargoff, Mitch Low – Men
Jovan Ajder – Aftersun
Hugh Fox, Ben Baird – The Wonder
Dom Corbisiero, Dai Shell – The Feast
Best Production Design
Fletcher Jarvis – Flux Gourmet
Grant Montgomery – The Wonder
Helen Scott – Living
Billur Turan – Aftersun
Gary Williamson – Medusa Deluxe
Fonte: IndieWire